New York Opens The Season With Baltimore

On Thursday afternoon New York will open the 2019 by hosting Baltimore who like New York is a member of the American League East.

Japanese right -hander Masahiro Tanaka will start opening day for New York. Tanaka earns his fourth career Opening Day start, in the wake of Luis Severino's shoulder injury. Tanaka hopes for a different result than his previous openers (2015-18), all games the Yankees lost. Tanaka was 0-2 with a 9.49 ERA in those starts. He will oppose Baltimore right -hander Alex Cobb. The O's looked at the track record and strong '18 second half when tabbing Cobb their Opening Day starter over Dylan Bundy and Andrew Cashner. It'll mark the first career Opening Day nod for Cobb, who went 5-15 with a 4.90 ERA in 28 starts last year. “according to https://www.mlb.com/yankees/roster/probable-pitchers

Last season New York had a new manager at the helm in Aaron Boone who played twelve seasons in the Major Leagues that included stints in both the American League as well as National League during his twelve year playing career he played for Cincinnati , New York where he is currently the manager , Cleveland Washington as well as Florida which is known as Miami.

During Aaron Boone’s first season as the manager in the Bronx. New York finished with a record of 100-62 and finished second in the American League East while they made it to the ALDS before falling to Boston in the American League Division Series 3-1. “according to https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/2018_ALDS1.shtml

As for how Baltimore did in 2018 they finished with a record of 47-115 and finished fifth in American League East.

First pitch is set for 1:05pm from Yankee Stadium. The game will be televised on ESPN.